News by Topic: Faculty

WXXI News speaks with President David Munson about how RIT is navigating economic headwinds resulting from President Donald Trump's campaign to upend the finances of colleges and universities nationwide.

USA Today features Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe and the COSMOS-Web team. The international research group publicly released the largest look ever at the universe.

The New York Times interviews Alex Lobos, director of the School of Design, about the product designs of appliances that consumers are looking for.

Yahoo interviews Associate Professor Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard and members of the Hot Wheelz racing team for a story about women taking on leadership roles.

RIT’s physician assistant program celebrated its 30th graduating class this year, and now its biggest champion, former director and founder Heidi Miller, is preparing to retire at the end of June after nearly 32 years.

Photographer and Professor Emeritus Denis Defibaugh was named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and will return to Greenland in July to document native culture.

A team of RIT experts has created CTIBench, a new tool that evaluates how much a large language model really knows about cybersecurity. CTIBench is the first and most comprehensive benchmark in the Cyber Threat Intelligence space. The tool is already being used by Google, Cisco, and Trend Micro.

Earth.com reports on the COSMOS-Web data release, co-led by Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, which reveals the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever.

The Register interviews Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about the COSMOS-Web data release.

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, highlights new research that links short-term spikes in PM2.5 to increased antidepressant use in an essay for Basis Point Insight.

Former Oxford University professor Newton Howard is fueled by his fascination with quantum biology and neuroscience. This fall, Howard will bring his enthusiasm and expertise to RIT’s School of Individualized Study as a professor of practice.

ABC News interviews Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy, about COSMOS-Web. Kartaltepe served as the lead researcher for COSMOS-Web, the largest General Observer program selected for Cycle 1 of the James Webb Space Telescope.